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M-POWER SUMMIT: Program to End Violence, Harassment Changing the Dynamic in Lesotho
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Eradicating Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Work in Southern Africa: An M-POWER High-Level Summit
WELCOME RECEPTION Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., South African Standard Time Place: Avani Maseru Hotel, Maseru SUMMIT Date: Thursday, July 27, 2023 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., South African Standard Time / 2:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.,...
MAY DAY 2023: STANDING UP FOR WORKER RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
African Union Leaders Join Forces in Historic Democracy Summit
Dozens of union leaders from across Africa took part in the first-ever Summit for Democracy event on the continent March 30, where they discussed the essential role of unions in strengthening democracy and shared strategies on how unions can step up efforts to advance...
Podcast: Workers Speak Out: Unions Are Essential for Democracy
Workers from around the world, including those exiled from Belarus, Eswatini and Myanmar for forming unions, striking and trying to speak freely, describe why democracy is important—and why unions are key to democracy—in a special episode of The Solidarity Center...
Official Summit for Democracy Side Event: Amplifying the Voices of Workers to Safeguard Democracy in Africa
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023 Time: 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Central Africa Time / 2 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time Place: In-person (Southern Sun Ridgeway Lusaka, Zambia) and virtual event. Registration required. To join online, click here. To join us in...
Exiled Union Leader: Workers ‘Demanding Democracy’ in Eswatini
In Eswatini, a landlocked country in southern Africa, union workers are routinely harassed, attacked and even killed for going on strike or holding rallies. In 2021, dozens of workers were killed by security forces in what Amnesty International called “a full-frontal...
Talk, Not Chalk! Kosovo Teachers Urge Dialog with Government
When teachers in Kosovo went on what ultimately became a five-week strike for better pay and improved classroom resources last autumn, they did so as a last resort, says Rrahman Jasharaj, chair of the teacher’s union, SBSSHK. “For nine months we tried to negotiate...
Fierce and Beloved Labor Leader Myrtle Witbooi Passes Away
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High-Level, Global Initiative: Worker Rights Fundamental to Democracy
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence STARTS NOW!
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Podcast: Union Women Key to Ending Gender-Based Violence at Work
For more than 10 years, union women who work at factories, on farms, in restaurants, taxis and offices campaigned for an international treaty to end gender-based violence at work. In 2019, they achieved a huge success when the International Labor Organization (ILO)...
Grassroots Voices: Spotlight on Migrant Perspectives towards the IMRF [Report Launch Event]
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022 Time: 08:30 NY / 14:30h Geneva / 19:30 BKK Place: Virtual. Registration required. The Global Coalition on Migration and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung are pleased to announce the launch of the Spotlight Report on Global Migration. The...
OECD Global Deal Conference: A Better Future for Essential Workers
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EST Place: Virtual. Registration required. Join Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau for a high-level discussion with global leaders on ending gender violence. The panel, “Ending Violence and...
ILAW JOURNAL: ADVANCING THE RIGHTS OF INFORMAL WORKERS
Workers in the informal economy, with assistance from legal advocates, have won protections and respect for their rights at work through a variety of legal strategies, both within and outside of labor law. In the latest issue of the Global Labour Rights Reporter, case...
Nigeria Launches Platform Worker Rights Campaign
In Nigeria—where 93 percent of working people toil in the informal economy for low wages, unprotected by labor law and without social services such as pensions and healthcare—app-based workers are fighting for their rights. With Solidarity Center support, today the...
‘We Are Invisible People’: Kyrgyz Migrant Domestic Worker
A study conducted by Insan-Leilek, a Kyrgyz migrant worker foundation, and the Trade Union of Migrants of the Kyrgyz Republic documents abuses suffered by many who migrate to Russia to earn their livelihoods as nannies, adult caregivers, cooks, cleaners and live-in...
South Africa: Survey Flags Domestic Worker Human Rights Violations, Solutions
“The dignity of people’s very being is at stake,” said IZWI Domestic Worker Alliance’s founder and lead researcher Amy Tekie in opening remarks at a recent webinar focused on a new qualitative survey of human rights violations against live-in domestic workers in South...
Labor Leaders Stand Against Anti-Union Violence as Mexican Workers Vote for an Independent Union
Unions in Mexico and throughout Latin America are speaking out against anti-union violence in the wake of threats made against two women leading efforts to win a historic union election. Voting began yesterday and continues today at a pickup truck plant in Silao,...
The Persistence of Private Power: Sacrificing Rights for Wages (South Africa)
"The Persistence of Private Power: Sacrificing Rights for Wages," a qualitative survey of human rights violations against live-in domestic workers in South Africa, is co-published by IZWI Domestic Workers Alliance—a network of domestic workers in Johannesburg that...